Jason, Jennifer, and their daughter Jordyn, Dropped off 5 birds for our 2018 race series. They will be back soon with a few more. The Johnson’s fly under 2Jaysloft. They used to race their pigeons in Florida but relocated to North West Arkansas. We wish them luck!

This is Ecker/Murphy Syndicate’s AU 17 GSV 1238. This blue check cock won 2nd High Point Bird. Ecker/Murphy sent 6 birds to the final race. All 6 returned on the day from 325 miles. Four of the 6 were in the prizes with one bird being equal 1st.

The first birds home! 4 birds arrived together but circled a few times. They landed on the loft roof and stared at the spectators. Last year the birds were unaffected by the people. They hesitated long enough to allow 3 more birds to arrive and they all went in together. Our goal was to have the race long enough so there wouldn’t be a big drop. If the first four birds had trapped quicker… that’s pigeon racing. The birds were really tired and gave it all they had. We sent half the birds we started with to the final race. We had half of those birds home on the day. I’d say that is a success. Thank you for sending your amazing birds!

Even though we had to race in the middle of the week, we still had a nice group show up. We met at Roma’s Italian Restaurant in Sallisaw Oklahoma and had some great food. Then we returned to wait for the birds. Each team received a free bag of Des Moines feed. We had a contest to see who could guess the arrival time. Charlie Mayfield was very close and won another bag of Des Moines feed. We had a drawing and gave away 4 prizes of 25 ETS bands each to 4 lucky people.